The letter from Carol Baker ("Safe in Baltimore," Jan. 18) was an answer to Eileen Pollock's previous piece on the lack of safety for Baltimore's citizens. Ms. Baker provides her personal evidence about living in Baltimore for 30 years and never being mugged and other quality of life benefits for living here and suggests Ms. Pollock should move away if she's so concerned.

Yet just four days before printing this item, Jon Fogg, a sportswriter for The Sun, was smashed in the head with a brick close to his home in Canton, and his car and laptop were stolen. Omitted from the headline of the recent article about his recovery ("Canton man recovering from skull fractures after attack," Jan. 22) is that Mr. Fogg works for The Sun.

One would think The Sun would wait until his recovery before printing Ms. Baker's blessings on safety in Baltimore. One would think that The Sun would know one of its employees is in the hospital with a fractured skull, missing and damaged teeth and other injuries when they printed Ms. Baker's response about safety. One would think, like many another business that cares for its employees, that The Sun would print a notice of reward for information leading to the arrest of the violent attacker of one of their employees.

Finally, one would think that The Sun would be honest about safety in Baltimore and call for civic authorities to address more than the continuing rise in the murder count, telling them that it doesn't help to state that "violent crime" is decreasing in Baltimore.

Reading your paper lately has become quite depressing. Perhaps you could start publishing a front-page table showing the number of people shot to death each day, plus the number of heroin overdose deaths and the number of infants delivered in the city's hospitals.

Everyone is wondering why the increase in crime in Charm City since the riots ("Monday shooting victim is Baltimore's 36th May homicide," May 27). The reason for the violence is quite simple. It can be directly attributed to the Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake's indecision in a time of crisis. It...

The astronomical increase in shootings and homicides in Baltimore is easy to explain. The criminal element is now in charge — no more police to hassle them and take their guns. They feel protected by the powers that be, and they are. They are shooting and killing each other because they are angry?...

"Black lives matter!" was the chant heard at recent demonstrations in cities and towns from Ferguson, Mo., to Baltimore. Yes, they do matter, but apparently not so much to some other blacks. Only when a white police officer shoots or engages in other behavior that results in the death of a black...

At a time when Baltimore could desperately use some good news when it comes to the prospects of reducing violence, research from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health suggests we may already have taken a key step toward preventing gun homicides — it just may take a few years for us...